THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012

Today is Thursday, May 3, the 124th day of 2012. There are 242 days left in the year.

1494 ― Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it ```St. Iago"

1621 ― Francis Bacon accused of bribery

1906 ― British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey

1937 ― Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Gone With the Wind"

1946 ― International military tribunal in Tokyo begins

1947 ― Japan forms a constitutional democracy

1956 ― A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (two over 13,000')

1963 ― Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ``I have a dream" speech

1978 ― ``Sun Day" ― solar energy events are held in US

1997 ― Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue